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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 17h

many policies and appointments were good in isolation but it is hard to view his administration in its totality as anything other than an utter failure

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 17h

feel like we've let it recede a little that Biden got unceremoniously knifed by all his closest friends and ideological allies because they were confronted with reams of polls showing Trump competitive or leading in New Mexico and New Jersey and Virginia

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 17h

The defenses of him are obscene. we wickermanned the guy. literally never happened before in the history of the us

Like its not ratfucking pointing out failed policies of the guy the *entire* party threw out as the nominee

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16h

Big news, friends: on December 3rd, I'll be launching a brand-new history show, "Past Lives." Every episode focuses on the life of a real person from history and tries to make sense of their experiences and their world. There will be weekly scripted episodes and tons of bonus content on Patreon.

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Austin Kidwell @austinkidwell.bsky.social · 13h

I too sometimes find yimbys annoying but any clear-headed materialist analysis of contemporary California has to conclude they are right about the failure to build enough housing and the corrosive effect nimbyism has had on our state

Austin Kidwell @austinkidwell.bsky.social · 13h

she is Exhibit A on why it is utter folly to base your politics off of who annoys you

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 14h

I have a very specific kind of contempt for Kate Willett

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 14h

I have a very specific kind of contempt for Kate Willett

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 18h

The funniest take on here today is probably "sure Netanyahu is a bad actor, but it's unclear how the US could have possibly put pressure on him". Imagine admitting you're less curious and creative than the Trump administration and framing it as nuance

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 17h

The defenses of him are obscene. we wickermanned the guy. literally never happened before in the history of the us

Like its not ratfucking pointing out failed policies of the guy the *entire* party threw out as the nominee

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 17h

fact it didn’t fucking work. It didn’t work electorally, it didnt work geopolitically, it didn’t work for tens of thousands of dead palestinians

how did joe biden spend the lame duck? great question, calling on world leaders to continue supporting israel after the likud coalition helped elect trump

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

The two best defenses for Biden administration policy I have seen are that Biden was world historically stupid or that Biden's commitment to apartheid was too strong. Am I supposed to be impressed by either, is my response.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17h

Bibi: i am in a partisan alliance with republicans and gonna play to the clock to fuck you over

Biden: sounds good

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21h

I suppose if the question here is 'why don't these fields produce new discoveries at the same rate as the sciences' the answer is a pretty obvious, 'because they're not funded like the sciences.'

We could do a lot of archaeology with, say, a few billion dollars a year!

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe this is simply a difference in the expected 'rate' of knew knowledge, but this take puzzles me, because there's quite a bit of new data and studies needing to be done that I can see pretty easily in Roman history.

Knowledge creation steady and clearly visible.

A tweet by Theo Nash, which reads, "The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 22h

I don't think this is quite true. Yes, the Biden Administration was an utter failure.

That said, I don't think we can understate the relative power of Trump in this: a lock grip over his own party, an opposition that was trending increasingly against Israel. He had close to unprecedented freedom

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22h

Worth emphasizing that Trump's singular trick for facilitating a deal in Israel was just...being publicly frustrated with Netanyahu and threatening to walk. That's not a unique talent, it's just a thing Biden personally and ideologically was unwilling to do. Lowest bar cleared to great relief.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting in itself that the public's default reaction to whatever the government is doing seems to be "stop doing that, try the opposite". It suggests something quite profound is going wrong.

Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 1d

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

How do I make Justice Kavanaugh watch this?

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Austin Kidwell @austinkidwell.bsky.social · 1d

I want to urge people to unfollow and block the juniper “onion person” account

She is gifted and funny poster so I get why she has the following she has. The problem is she is a bad faith liar who will push anything that fits her ideological priors without caring if any of it is true or real

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Okay I guess people are fine with being antisemitic on main

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

the reason that this is so galling is that the majority of Israelis are people expelled from other Muslim-majority countries, so (unsurprisingly) Israeli food has a lot in common with their neighbors'. most people don't know this, though, and think that it's all Ashkenazim.

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